Seavey wins Iditarod race for 3rd consecutive year
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DALLAS Seavey won his third straight Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early yesterday morning, crossing under the burled arch on Front Street in Nome, Alaska, for his fourth overall title in the last five years.
Seavey completed the nearly 1,000-mile (1610-kilometer) race in a record time of 8 days, 11 hours, 20 minutes, 16 seconds. He arrived in Nome at 2:20am.
He said at the finish that he spent the first two-thirds of the race “dead on my feet” and had never been so tired. “This was a heck of a trip, all the way from the start. It was up and down. But we made it work.”
The Iditarod started on March 6 in Willow, about 50 miles north of Anchorage, and took mushers across two mountain ranges, down the mighty Yukon River and along the wind-scoured Bering Sea coast.
Eighty-five mushers began the race, but 12 have so far scratched, including four-time champion Lance Mackey.
The Iditarod had its ceremonial start on March 5 in Anchorage despite a lack of snow this winter in Alaska’s largest city. About seven train car loads of snow were shipped from Fairbanks, but not used.
Seavey’s record time beat his previous record set in 2014 of 8 days, 13 hours, 4 minutes, 19 seconds.
His only loss in his Iditarod racing career was to his father, Mitch Seavey, who won in 2013.
Mitch Seavey took second place in this year’s race, coming in just after his son.
The 2016 Iditarod will partly be remembered for an attack on two mushers on the trail near the checkpoint in Nulato. Arnold Demoski is accused of intentionally driving a snowmobile into musher Aliy Zirkle’s team and then the team of four-time Iditarod champion Jeff King. One of King’s dogs was killed, and at least two other dogs were injured.
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